Indian princess at Sunset by hobepaintball
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Here is a more complete version of my imagined image. I wanted the background to evoke a feel of the western skys, but I did not want it to distract from the image of my Princess. I hope i accomplished that by keeping the background simple and making it's key feature, the sun, draw your eye towards the Princess, not away from her. In the basic image the lighting is perfect for a black background, the first few times I lit the shot with the background (imported from Vue as a background image) all the details on the horse blanket and the princess outfit were lost. Probably what it would look like in those lighting conditions. Now with the shot over-lit all the detail is back, but I may be loosing the artistic appeal.
Some advice here would be very welcome.
Comments (7)
Seaview123
This looks pretty good. Nice job on this character and rendering.
shamstar
Good action poses. Well done.
thecytron
Wonderful!
Flint_Hawk
Your background is great & the poses & POV really pulls the viewers eyes to the princess! Great work!
februus
Nice overall composition there. The main reason the Western artists captured so much yellow in the light was due the clouds of ochre prairie dust that hung in the sky after herds of cattle, horses and bison kicked it up and it hung in the air always. If you want to join the foreground to the background and you use photoshop, you could pick the ochre yellow color from the background, add a layer and if you have used cloud or fog brushes you could brush in an appropriate sweep of dust from the dark mountain at the left bottom and encircle the horse and rider where the hooves join the bottom of the frame and sweep the dust cloud up into midlevel of the right hand sky. You could play with the opacity on the dust layer or add multiple layers of dust to bring greater depth. On another note, check the rein line dropping from the harness, it appears embedded in the horse model about midway down. If you can't shift it, maybe make it invisible. For images you intend to print, I've found that if you first render out the characters by themselves at 300dpi and save the file as a .png and then create the background (in Vue or Bryce) and save those as 300dpi .tiff files and composite the two in photoshop (the .tiff as the background and the .png as the foreground) you have a great amount of latitude in how to proceed. Hope those suggestions can be of help.
hobepaintball
Februus, thanks for those insitfull comments. I have tried this just in Poser, tried it all in Vue (currently a disaster since the horses transmapped hair is killing Vue8) but I think the Photoshop method is going to be by far the beter way to go. I have been safvingthese rtenders as JPG with no compression and as PNGs for the transparancy and use in Photoshop. in this next image, I did just that. http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2033334 Once i find the right background image/colors i will go about fixing the lighting and trying what you said with post production work
airbrushr
This is a very nice render. I saw your post in the critique post, thought I'd check it out. I only have 2 suggestions, if they might help. The line going down the horses neck is distracting, looks like a reign that dissapears in the neck. Maby just looks that way on my screen. Second, the background image looks very nice. If you do multiple renders, use different lights in each and try to get highlights on your characters from the sun, the cloud direction lighting, and even a yellowish, faint highlight from underneath to show reflection from the ground. Then in Photoshop, start with the original image, put a layer over from the next, and erase every thing except the hilighted areas from the lights, using a soft brush from inside of the figure out to get highlights on the edge. Do the same with each image, saves time from trying to set up alot of lights and setting them, and alot of render time. Hope this may help some.